Penny Deadful Quotes

The Creature: The pansy at my feet doth the same tale repeat. Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream?

Sir Malcolm: Miss Ives was the last link to who I was. I must find out who I am yet going to be. Oh, I will miss her to my bones. Will you stay, Ethan? Ethan Chandler: You're my family.

Vanessa Ives: Oh, Ethan... I see... our Lord.

Vanessa Ives: You must help me defeat the forces of darkness and deny them their prize for all time. Ethan Chandler: No! Vanessa Ives: Please, Ethan. Let it end. With a kiss. Ethan Chandler: With a kiss. With love. Vanessa Ives: With love.

Lily: Goodbye, Dorian. I hope they watch over you. Dorian Gray: You'll be back. And I'll be here. I'll always be here.

Vanessa Ives: You once said we name things so they don't frighten us. I'm not frightened. His name is Dracula.

Sir Malcolm: Before you speak another word, I ask you to consider this... How valuable is your life? Do you hold it dear? Does your wife value your company? Do you favor growing old to one day teach your ugly inbred children your grotesque manners? Lay hands on him, that'll be your end.

Lily: How do you accomplish anything in this life? By craft. By stealth. By poison. By the throat quietly slit in the dead of the night. By the careful and silent accumulation of power.

Justine: They think as you do, the suffragettes. Lily: No. Our enemies are the same but they seek equality. Justine: And we? Lily: Mastery.

Kaetenay: I, alone, understand the sins you have committed. The pain you carry. But all your life you have run from this pain. You ran from your father. You ran from your tribe. Tonight, you stop running. Tonight, you accept the destiny that God has granted. Ethan Chandler: I will do whatever I need to, to save her.

Alexander Sweet: You will never be alone again. I will love you till time has lost all meaning. Vanessa Ives: Yes. Alexander Sweet: Do you accept me? Vanessa Ives: I accept myself.

Bartholomew Rusk: Ethan Talbot is a scourge upon the earth. Whatever code I have followed, I hereby disavow. If given the chance, I will shoot him in the back and butcher all his kind.

The Orderly: I was at home, yesterday night past. And I was helping my son with a wooden ship model. That's something we do. And he asked me about the ship. I said it was the kind of ship used for exploring the seas. And he said, "Where do they explore, Father?" And I told him, "Everywhere. The Orient, Peru, and even the frozen North." And he says, "What's that, Father?" And so I told him it was the places all covered with snow. North of Scotland and even beyond that. And he said, "Do people live there?" And I said, "No. It's too cold and lonely all the time. No one lives there." And I started to cry. And I couldn't stop. My son took my hand. I couldn't stop crying. Vanessa Ives: Why? The Orderly: Because I realized I was wrong. One person does live there, where it's cold and lonely all the time. So I tendered my resignation. I'll stay on long enough to see you tomorrow. The last person you see before the surgery will be someone who loves you.

Lily: All men are utter slaves to their desires.

Victor Frankenstein: After all, it is our memories which make us monsters, is it not?

Alexander Sweet: There's one monster who loves you for who you really are. And here he stands. I don't want to make you good, I don't want you to be normal. I don't need you to be anything but who you truly are.

Dorian Gray: Do you not yet comprehend the wicked secret of the immortal? All age and die, save you. All rot and fall to dust, save you. Any child you bear becomes a crone and perishes before your eyes. Any lover withers and shrinks into incontinence and bent, toothless senility. While you, only you, never age. Never tire. Never fade. Alone. But after a time you'll lose the desire for passion entirely, for connection with anyone. Like a muscle that atrophies from lack of use. And one day you'll realize you've become like them. Beautiful and dead. You have become a perfect, unchanging portrait of yourself.